My Days in the Underworld: Rise of the Bangalore Mafia

Agni Sreedhar

Westland

481 pages, Rs 395

Agni Sreedhar is an underworld don turned writer, journalist and filmmaker. He studied law in Bangalore and was intent on entering the Indian Civil Service when circumstances forced him to turn to crime. Starting from the early 1980s, Sreedhar found himself entrenched in the bitter gang wars that shaped the contours of modern Bangalore. This book is an intimate, first-person account of the two decades he spent in the world of crime.